ROME http://www.mexicosoccerpro.com/Javier-Aquino-Mexico-Jersey/ , Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- It has dominated the center-right of Italian politics for 20 years, but now the wheels appear to be falling off the Forza Italia party, in line with the declining fortunes of its founder, the billionaire media mogul and three-time premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Membership of the party, which Berlusconi created in 1993, and that allowed him to sweep to power just months later, has collapsed from a high of 400 http://www.mexicosoccerpro.com/Hirving-Lozano-Mexico-Jersey/ ,000 to just 60,000. Accounts are in the red, and at the end of 2014 it sacked 50 workers.
Meanwhile, Forza Italia poll ratings are sinking, falling as low as 15 percent and in danger of being overtaken by the populist, right-wing Northern League, which has surged on an immigrant-bating http://www.mexicosoccerpro.com/Hector-Moreno-Mexico-Jersey/ , anti-Euro ticket.
Marcello Veneziani, a political pundit at Berlusconi's own conservative newspaper Il Giornale, said that Forza Italia was in crisis and that a fight for the succession was to blame. "The real problem is that the Berlusconi era is ending and that's why the party is exploding," he said.
"It's to be expected. But the slightly strange thing is even the real Berlusconi loyalists such as Verdini are leaving," he added.
But if Forza Italia's problems are in part financial and internecine, the other menace is purely political, and